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Three more Swiss banks - Bank Coop, Migros Bank, and Linth Bank - said they would work with US officials in a crackdown on wealthy Americans evading taxes through hidden offshore accounts, a trickle that could rise to about one third of the coun

Switzerland is on the brink of a deal to settle a long-running dispute with US authorities over Swiss banks accused of helping wealthy Americans evade billions of dollars of tax, the finance minister said.
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Swiss banks hoping to atone for decades of complicity in tax evasion may be left to sweat it out for months as the US and Germany ponder the right level of punishment.
Switzerland has long dodged US accusations of hiding money for wealt

Switzerland is to announce plans to clean up its reputation as a haven for untaxed money by demanding that banks force clients to declare their money is taxed.
Under a 'clean money' strategy, which Finance Minister Eveline Widmer-

Switzerland has handed US authorities encrypted data on bank employees who served American clients suspected of dodging taxes, and will only provide the key to decipher them once a tax row is settled, the finance ministry said.
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Swiss banks are likely to keep helping tax dodgers hide their money, even after Berne struck deals with Germany and Britain to tax assets stashed in secret accounts, a banker-turned-whistleblower told Reuters.
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